Another glibc upgrade issue....

darkmav · 2012-08-10 14:08:55

1. My network does not work anymore (wlan0 and eth0 are non-existent in /dev !)

2. I am unable to mount my Windows partition so as to take a backup of the /home directory which contains useful data. I will try mounting it off the Arch distro cd now...I guess I have to perform a full system reinstall anyway.

tomk · 2012-08-10 14:12:08

FYI network interfaces never appear in /dev.

darkmav · 2012-08-10 14:13:57

Ok, I guess I did not know that...is this unique to Arch? (I'm coming from a Ubuntu/Fedora background...)

Anyway, do you have any suggestions on how to fix it? I tried the networkmanager wiki, but I get messages saying wlan0 not found and eth0 not found. I need to get wlan0 to work in console mode, so I can do a pacman -Syu and get whatever is missing, especially the kernel headers. I want to salvage the system, either by backing up the contents of my Linux partition on my windows partition (and reinstalling Arch), or by fixing the Linux installation.

EDIT: wlan0 and eth0 devices not found.

Last edited by darkmav (2012-08-10 14:16:39)

tomk · 2012-08-10 14:15:38

Not unique to Arch, no. I haven't read the rest of the thread, so I've no idea about your problem, just wanted to correct your misunderstanding.

cfr · 2012-08-11 22:21:06

darkmav wrote:

EDIT: wlan0 and eth0 devices not found.

Not found by what?

There are instructions for getting a network connection from a console in the wiki. Is that all you mean you need? Or...?

darkmav · 2012-08-12 00:43:36

cfr wrote:

darkmav wrote:
EDIT: wlan0 and eth0 devices not found.
Not found by what?
There are instructions for getting a network connection from a console in the wiki. Is that all you mean you need? Or...?

Not found by the ip up script. I tried to get the network to work in the console mode...it did not. So, I just used http://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways- … m-windows/ to backup my data on the Windows partition, and now I intend to reinstall Arch.

manouchk · 2012-08-26 20:23:46

As there does not seem to have any simple solution, I tried the option on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … iki:usrlib that says that could save some times for whom did not updated archlinux in 2012. I'm trying this now:

pacman -U http://pkgbuild.com/~allan/glibc-2.16.0-1-<arch>.pkg.tar.xz
where <arch> is replaced by i686 or x86_64 as required. Add a single "-d" if needed.

but it does not solve the problem! Let see a bit more!

I've found some files like /lib/modules/3.2.6-2-ARCH/modules.softdep that are not own by any package. I deleted them by doing: rm -rf /lib/modules (be carefull!!)

I still get an error saying that
glibc : /lib is already present or something liek that 9my archlinux speaks Frecnh so it's a little bit different.

I'm trying to reboot now and see if it gets better after reboot!

Last edited by manouchk (2012-08-26 21:04:04)

cfr · 2012-08-27 02:22:03

LC_ALL=C to get English output.

That version of glibc is not a magic bullet - you still need to follow the instructions in the wiki which tell you precisely what to do if pacman still complains that it cannot determine the ownership of /lib (or /lib already exists or similar complaints about /lib). If that's the only problem in /lib now, you are almost there but rebooting will not, I think, help. (The wiki will.)

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